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Rapid City, SD metro ZIP codes, ranked by the ZipVitals Score

Every Rapid City, SD metro ZIP code (ZCTA) with a ZipVitals Score, ranked within the metro — descriptive of documented conditions, never a verdict on the people who live there.

Data release 202627 ZIP codes in this ranking

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#ZIP code · locatorScore
  1. 3,58757706in Ellsworth Afb · 2,787 residents61.87
  2. 3,65957702in Rapid City · 35,595 residents61.77
  3. 4,49857745in Hill City · 1,894 residents60.47
  4. 4,70057751in Keystone · 893 residents60.21
  5. 5,93457718in Black Hawk · 7,937 residents58.56
  6. 6,09457769in Piedmont · 4,029 residents58.37
  7. 6,13757730in Custer · 5,596 residents58.32
  8. 6,62757773in Pringle · 206 residents57.72
  9. 6,88657792in White Owl · 114 residents57.40
  10. 7,05657787in Union Center · 487 residents57.22
  11. 7,19757741in Fort Meade · 141 residents57.09
  12. 9,00357767in Owanka · 234 residents55.38
  13. 10,16857719in Box Elder · 12,221 residents54.42
  14. 10,37857758in Mud Butte · 35 residents54.25
  15. 10,52057738in Fairburn · 356 residents54.14
  16. 10,64457761in New Underwood · 1,180 residents54.04
  17. 10,92257703in Rapid City · 18,013 residents53.83
  18. 11,07257785in Sturgis · 10,874 residents53.71
  19. 11,24157744in Hermosa · 2,421 residents53.59
  20. 11,44157791in Wasta · 97 residents53.45
  21. 11,45857790in Wall · 1,147 residents53.44
  22. 13,09057788in Vale · 598 residents52.27
  23. 14,42257775in Quinn · 191 residents51.30
  24. 17,41957725in Caputa · 130 residents49.17
  25. 18,37757701in Rapid City · 45,795 residents48.43
  26. 23,82157780in Scenic · 70 residents43.58
  27. 26,93157748in Howes · 369 residents39.73

How this ranking works

Ranks are each ZIP code’s position in the full national ZipVitals Score ranking, so the numbers jump — this metro holds 27 of the tens of thousands of scored US ZIP codes — and they never change with the sort direction; the rank a ZIP carries here is the rank it carries everywhere on this site. A ZIP whose data is too thin to score is held out entirely rather than filled from county or metro figures.

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A high score describes favorable documented conditions — never a claim about residents. Where ZIP codes score low, that pattern reflects structural conditions — investment, environment, and access — far more than the choices of the people who live there.